New flights from Athens to Moscow and Bologna
New flights from Thessaloniki to Moscow and Paris
New flights from Larnaca to London Heathrow and 6 additional destinations in Greece
AEGEAN pursues its long-term investment policy, always aiming to enhance the options offered to the Greek public as well as to support tourism.
New destinations abroad for additional choices, more frequent flights to major existing destinations aiming to bolster the airline’s position towards the competition, laying emphasis on direct connections of Greek regional destinations to foreign markets in order to support tourism; these are AEGEAN’s three principle growth targets for 2011.
Specifically, commencing its summer schedule, AEGEAN will enhance its network, launching flights from Athens to Moscow and Bologna, new destinations from Thessaloniki to Moscow and Paris, while at the same time establishing a base of operations in Larnaca, Cyprus, and starting direct flights to London/Heathrow from Larnaca, as well as direct flights to six destinations in Greece; Heraklion, Rhodes, Chania, Kos, Mykonos and Santorini.
Moreover, the company increases its frequency of flights from Athens to London/Heathrow (up to 4 daily flights), Rome (up to 3 daily flights), Paris/CDG (up to 3 daily flights), Brussels (2 daily flights), Barcelona (up to 10 flights per week) and Madrid (up to 10 flights per week).
Great importance is placed on the enhancement of the direct connections network from Thessaloniki, which now numbers 18 domestic and international routes from the city that serves as permanent base for five of the Airbus A320 aircraft family.
With these additions, AEGEAN now reaches a total of 35 domestic and 24 international routes, not including the significant number of extra destinations in crucial markets covered by six of the company’s aircraft operating in the charter market.
Dimitris Gerogiannis, AEGEAN’s Managing Director, stated: “We are moving ahead on a steady course with deliberate steps, despite the extremely difficult circumstances. We are offering new options, opening up new strategic international markets like Russia, creating direct overseas connections to several Greek cities, utilizing our presence and personnel in major international markets in the best way possible. Despite our increased attention abroad, the domestic network continues to constitute the core of AEGEAN’s network, since it allows us to meet the primary and fundamental demand of the Greek public, but at the same time it is what fuels our international network.”
In more detail, the main features of AEGEAN’s summer flight schedule are defined as follows:
NEW FLIGHTS
- Athens – Moscow: 4 flights weekly, from April 29, 2011
- Athens – Bologna: 3 flights weekly
- Thessaloniki – Moscow: 4 flights weekly, from April 29, 2011
- Thessaloniki – Paris: 3 flights weekly
- Larnaca – London Heathrow: 1 flight daily
- Larnaca – Heraklion: 3 flights weekly, every Tuesday, Friday and Sunday
- Larnaca – Rhodes: 2 flights weekly, from June 24 until September 4, 2011
- Larnaca – Mykonos: 2 flights weekly, from June 25 until September 10, 2011
- Larnaca – Santorini: 1 flight weekly, from June 28 until September 6, 2011
- Larnaca – Chania: 1 flight weekly, from June 29 until August 31, 2011
- Larnaca – Kos: 1 flight weekly, from July 19 until August 30
2011 INCREASED FREQUENCIES
- Athens to London: Increase from 2 to 4 daily flights
- Athens to Paris: Increase from 1 to 3 daily flights
- Athens to Rome: Increase from 2 to 3 daily flights
- Athens to Brussels: Increase from 1 to 2 daily flights
- Athens to Madrid: Increase of the daily flight during high season by 3 additional flights weekly
- Athens to Barcelona: Increase of the daily flight during high season by 3 additional flights weekly
- Athens to Tel-Aviv: Capacity increase utilizing 195-seat AIRBUS A321
- Athens to Venice: Increase from 3 to 4 weekly flights
- Larnaca to Thessaloniki: 9-11 flights in total weekly
The flights will be operated with brand-new AIRBUS A230/321 aircraft with 168 and 195 seats respectively, in dual class configuration, while providing an in-flight entertainment system with six music channels and a movie to all passengers for the flights to/from London, Paris and Brussels. It should be noted that AEGEAN operates the youngest fleet, but also a single type of medium-range jet airliner, which constitutes a very important cost-efficiency factor.
Aegean Airlines serviced 6.23 million passengers in 2010. Since June 30, 2010 it is a member of the strongest worldwide airline alliance, STAR ALLIANCE. In its 12 year history, Aegean has been awarded six times by the European Regions Airline Association (ERA). Furthermore, the company has been repeatedly awarded by the Athens International Airport as the greatest contributor to the airport’s passenger volume increase. Finally, the company has been honored with the Skytrax World Airline award, as the best European regional airline for 2010.
